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About The Oregon state employee. (Salem, Oregon.) 1944-195? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1948)
14 Oregon’s Grand Canyon of the Snake river, forming the boundary be tween Idaho and Oregon, 1000 feet deeper than the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, is' in the center of a great wilderness accessible only by trail from the Oregon side and by boat from Lewiston on the Idaho side. A lodge near the canyon mouth is at the end of the longest mail route in the na tion, according to the , Oregon state highway commission trayel informa tion department. The oldest'photo studio in the north west remains in place much as it did nearly a century ago when Peter Britt established shop in 1 8 52 at Jackson ville, queen city of Oregon’s golden yesterdays, during Oregon’s major gold rush. The studio is precisely the same it was when it moved to "new quarters in 1862, even to the head and neck rests. O ut-of-state visitors during Oregon’s territorial centennial year will seethe; Willamette river, the only major nav igable stream in the United States which flows south to north through its length. Much of Oregon’s colorful historic past is closely associated with the course of the river, according to the Oregon state highway commission travel information I department. More than 250 forest camps are op erated in Oregon by the United States forest service. Additional camps1 are maintained at Crater Lake National park. Oregon territorial centennial vis itors in 1948 are invited to use them w ithout fee, with the exception t of ^ Cfater Lake where a park e n tra n t- charge is made, according to the Ore gon state highway commission travel information department. Oregon’s, territorial, centennial, being observed during 1948, recalls that more than 2 50,000 square miles were added to the United States when the territory was established by congress in 1848. Originally it included, .as well as O re g o n , ! daho, Washington and portions of Wyoming and Montana, the Oregon State /highway commission travel in formation department reports’. ' New Chapters Join O.S.E.A. The, Oregon State Employees Assoc iation is proud and pleased to acknowl edge the addition of three new chap ters. | Number S is the Oregon Trail chapter and is composed of members ■of the Eastern Oregon Tuberculosis hospital at The Dalles. Oregon Voca tional School chapter at Klamath Faljs is number 36. (W inston Purvine, di rector of the school* was the first presi dent of the Library Building chapter while he. was in the Salem office of the vocational education department.) And the highway department has done it again! This time it is the OSHD em-| ployees at Baker who have,, formed thcl Baker' chapter, number 37. c Mrs,’ Laura Collins as president and Mrs. Ethel Gamble is „ secretary of The Oregon Trail chapter. Lee B rasseurind William Atwood are president and sec retary of the Oregon Vocational School chapter.*James O. Fleetwood is the first president of . the Baker chapter and J. D. P ratt is handling the work of secretary. A most hearty welcome Z|| extended td all of the new members in these chapters. The OSEA is; glad to have your assistance and your expressed, be lief in its ^objectives. tig The great poihposer’ does not ,?se£ to work because he is inspired, but be comes inspired because he is wolr king| —Ernest Newman? If loud reverberation echoes through the atmosphere, don’t think it is a ca tastrophe, don’t think it even queer. Keep smiling quite serenely, and treat it as a joke; it’s a New Year resolution that somebody just broke!
